Martyn's blog for the Revelation Software community, sharing ideas, news, views and more. NOTE – Views and opinions expressed in this blog are personal and do not necessarily represent those of Revelation Software.

Tag: Education

Firstly, I am sorry for having been so quiet recently. As many of you will know, I have been heavily involved with learning OpenInsight 10, planning and then producing the OpenInsight 10 Quick Start Videos. I have now produced and published 46 individual lesson videos on my OpenInsight 10 YouTube Channel and I still have reporting and a few other topics to cover over the next few weeks.

However, I wanted to share some wonderful news that came to my attention a couple of weeks ago. Every year Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) publish their annual industry awards and this year OpenInsight 10 was voted the Reader’ Choice Award Winner in the Best MultiValue Database category. This is quite the accolade considering that OpenInsight 10 has only been released for a very short time and it is a very welcome acknowledgement of the fantastic work undertaken by Mike, Carl and the whole developer team at Revelation Software.

If you would like to experience OpenInsight 10 for yourself, please drop me a line via www.revsoft.co.uk and I will get back to you as quickly as possible with details of the OpenInsight 10 evaluation.

So, I’ve been quiet on the blog for a few days but I’ve been far from quiet in the office. As well as the day job, I have been busy creating OpenInsight 10 (OI10) Lesson videos and there are currently ten lessons online. I’m now getting into building forms, so now is a good time to head over to my new OI10 YouTube Channel, catch up on what I’ve been doing and also please remember to subscribe.

Subscribing and commenting lets me know that it is worth my time creating these videos and that people are finding them useful or not. If you are a positive comment, a like and subscribe online would be welcome. If not, please drop me an email explaining why and I’ll try to change before I get too much further into the series.

I am also pleased to feature the RevUS DBTA video from yesterday. This is a video that features Mike Ruane, Bryan Shumsky and Bob Catalano (all from Revelation Software in the USA) all talking about the many “Features and Benefits of OpenInsight 10”.

In addition, and a first for my YouTube channels, I have a guest presenter. Andrew from Sprezzatura worked on something for me recently and which will become a big time saver and another example of using the OI10 tool set, rather than cutting and maintaining code. His video went live this afternoon on the channel.

Anyway, please like, subscribe and comment and help me to keep putting in the hours to get the series of lessons completed and, once that’s done, I’ll be looking for other OI related subjects, hints, tips and how-to’s to video.

Several of you have been chasing me about the OpenInsight 10 (OI10) training videos recently and the need for these was highlighted recently with the news that we have several non-OpenInsight MultiValue developers taking an interest in the tool set.

I have just finished producing the first three videos in the training series and I have published them to my new OI10 YouTube Channel and in a new playlist which will be added to as I get to finish more videos.

These first three videos are fairly light weight:

The first touches on what OpenInsight is, where is came from and there is a quick overview of the OI10 development environment. The overview is a reproduction of one of my earlier videos but it is included here for people who are new to OpenInsight and it is therefore conveniently placed in the Lesson playlist.

The second video looks at installing the OI10 evaluation software and making some initial configuration changes ready for the training videos to be followed.

The third video looks at how to create your first application and how to add an application level user into the system using the enhanced security.

I have also added a link to my earlier OpenInsight 9.x tutorial video playlist and which is located on a totally separate YouTube channel.

As usual, access to the video series is 100% free and I hope that existing and new OpenInsight developers and users will find the series of videos useful.

If you have not already, please be sure to subscribe to the channel to get notification of when additional videos are uploaded. I expect this to be fairly frequently initially and then things will slow up as I have to learn more about the massive changes that have been delivered in OpenInsight 10.

As always, please comment below the videos to let me know that they are being watched and whether you find them useful or not.

If you are interested in OpenInsight 10 and wondering what the forthcoming conference has on store for you, then you’ll be interested in the Revelation Conference website which is now live.

If you are an OpenInsight developer or a MultiValue developer using one of the main MV tools and you are still not interested and I can’t see why you would, please checkout the conference website and the Topics section specifically before you decline to take advantage of this learning experience. You just might be missing the opportunity to take your applications to the next level the easy way.

The Revelation Conference is the main event on Revelation’s event calendar and this years event looks to be bigger, better and more appealing to OpenInsight and other MultiValue developers than ever before.

This dedicated website provides you with all of the information that you need about the conference. It has details about the location (Orlando, Florida), you’ll find out all about the presentations and the absolute wealth of information available, about the speakers themselves and more.

I found the last conference invaluable in preparing me for the forthcoming OpenInsight 10 release and this years event looks to put even more detail into our hands. In doing so, Revelation are clearly using this major event to empower OpenInsight developers with regards to the new version and help them to become more prepared for the new release and ready for the wealth of change and good things buried on the 1,000,000 plus lines of code that has changed and the numerous new features for both developers and users.

The graphic above uses the word ‘Faster’ and is one of several that I could have borrowed from the new site. I chose faster because it is something that all of my customers are asking for and I believe that the new version will be faster – both with regards to development and the running of deployed systems.

Want to know more – checkout the Conference website and get your place booked ASAP.

I look forward to seeing you in Florida in April.

BTW – The conference website also includes a downloadable conference brochure and the Early Bird registration is available until February 29, 2016.

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